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Planet der Kannibalen |
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Hans-Christoph Blumenberg 90 min, 35mm, Black/White in German
with English subtitles
25 Oct 2002, 9:30 pm |
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In a black & white world, cartoonesque characters take up arms against nonsensical aliens. Topical satire on the battle for the ratings in the form of a 1950s science-fiction B-movie.
Planet of the Cannibals, a black and white, low budget, science fiction satire, is set in the year 2020, in a Germany where the European economic system has collapsed and a poverty stricken country in the grip of an energy crisis is about to celebrate thirty years' reunification.
Meanwhile, the two remaining media giants, Alphaplus and Eurolux, are fighting to the death for ratings. Their weapons, ever more extreme game- and talk shows.
Emma Trost, Alphaplus' director for trend management, has the mission to find aliens in the city, lure them onto a talk show and win the ratings war for once and all. Emma's cool as she knows there aren`t such things.
But just as her boss is about to tell her where they're hiding, he's shot. Emma, a murder suspect, is forced to flee through a night time city of cannibals, criminals, tycoons and terrorists until she meets media desperado Adam Singer. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the aliens. |
